PAWTUCKETVILLE/ACRE
University Avenue Bridge
1. Pawtucket Street (days) – Water line installation requiring full road closure
Detour Salem to Merrimack (Monday and Tuesday)
2. Intersection of VFW Highway and University Avenue (days) – Water line installation requiring single lane shifts on both roads (Wednesday – Friday)
3. Pawtucket Street (nights) – National Grid Gas relocation of existing gas line to new bridge (all week)
University Crossing
Preparations for the demolition of the former St. Joseph Hospital have begun.
•Monday through Friday–7 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.•Starting on Wednesday July 18th Shawmut will closing Salem Street from the Pawtucket Street intersection to the south edge of parking lot A (just North of 282 Salem Street) for the demolition of the west wing of the former St Joseph’s Hospital for a duration of 5± weeks.•A traffic management plan detouring traffic around the Salem/Pawtucket Street intersection via Bowers Street has been created and all signage will be installed and reviewed the City Traffic Engineer prior to the road closing on July 18.•Twenty-two parking spaces for Bowers Street residents as well as the residents at 282 Salem Street will be provided in UML’s parking lot B for the duration of the Salem Street closure.•Demolition of the north end of the west wing (corner of Salem & Pawtucket) will take place during weekends of July 21 and August 4 and will require shutting down the south lane of traffic on Pawtucket Street between Merrimack Street and Salem Street. A traffic management plan that has 2 police details alternating the east & west bound traffic through the one open lane is being developed.•Shawmut has flagged the Folk Festival weekend, July 28, as non-working days for this project.